Abraham Janssens (Flemish, c. 1575-1632)
Jupiter Rebuked by Venus
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Abraham Janssens (Flemish, c. 1575-1632)c. 1612
Jupiter Rebuked by Venus
Abraham Janssens (Flemish, c. 1575-1632) →17th Centuryoil on canvaspaint
Date
c. 1612
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
197.5 × 237.5 cm (77 3/4 × 93 1/2 in.); Framed: 231.1 × 271.8 × 7.6 cm (91 × 107 × 3 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by The Old Masters Society; the Alexander A. McKay Endowment
Abraham Janssens, Peter Paul Rubens's major competitor in Antwerp in the 1610s, produced monumental paintings of mythological and secular subjects. Influenced by his five-year stay in Rome, he injected his paintings with recognizable quotations from ancient sculpture and Italian Renaissance painting. This scene of Venus reprimanding the visibly annoyed Jupiter on Mount Olympus is a direct reference to a composition by the Italian artist Raphael on the ceiling of the Villa Farnesina in Rome. Janssens, however, enhanced the power and dynamism of the figures by emphasizing their musculature and working on a larger scale.
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